Sumiyo Amano Griesy

Sumiyo is an award winning designer and the director of Designtech Studio, a website design and development studio.

She was born and raised in Kumamoto, Japan. At age 14, she moved to the United States as a foreign exchange student where she learned English as her second language.

Sumiyo's interest in color, texture, pattern, and composition granted her to study media arts at a state funded arts education program at Perpich Center for Arts Education.

The studies in studio art, art history, comparative religion, photography, computer graphics, video editing, and web design lead her to receive an AA degree in multi-media arts in 1998 and a BA in Fine Arts in 2005 from the University of Colorado.

Sumiyo's first website design position was in 1997. She developed her design portfolio over the years and became a senior web designer for a globally recognized firm for over 10 years. Many of the projects Sumiyo has been involved in include custom website design and development, complex data integration with Flash applications, multi-media content, and print designs. During the 10 years, Sumiyo designed and developed numerous large-scale public involvement online projects that received recognitions and awards.

Sumiyo launched Designtech Studio. in 2001. Since then, she has focused on developing her business as a premiere web design and web development studio.

Sumiyo's designs are striking, unique, flexible, and range in style, thanks to her rich cultural background and many years of experience in working with a variety of clients and projects. Her ability to understand the heart of the project, to provide insightful suggestions, and to have skills and talents to produce the final products have gained her many returning and new clients.